My performance at the March 2021 online Boston Modular meetup.  Generative, using Plaits and a live mic for sound sources, run through filters, delays, and reverb.

Boston Modular March 2021 Performance

Digitized a compact cassette I recorded a while ago, only to realize nothing in the house could properly play back tapes.  Think it's my Casio CTK-6000 and Korg Monotron run through my Zoom MS-70CDR effects pedal.  Was recorded on an old shoebox-style cassette recorder and played back from a boombox (though one new enough to have a CD player).

Definitely ran the levels too hot.

Did a bit of limiting and compressing on the computer to bring the levels up.

Old Cassette

My day-late performance for Drone Day 2021, peformed using my Eurorack modular synth, Arturia Keystep, and Alesis SR-16.

Drone Day 2021

Piano Improv 2021/05/31 1

Piano Improv 2021/05/31 2

Piano Improv 2021/05/31 3

Jazz-Bluesy Sketch

Roslindale Porchfest 2021 Preview

My performance at Roslindale Porchfest 2021.

Porchfest 2021 Performance

Discordant Piano 2

Our local synth meetup group finally started meeting in person again.  Dropped by and made some weird space-y noises.

Boston Modular April 2022 Performance

Boston Modular May 2022 Performance

My performance at the Boston Modular meetup in June 2022.  First part is the live performance; second two parts were recorded at the event after the live performances.

Boston Modular June 2022

Discordant Piano 3

Boston Modular August 2022 Performance

Didn't feel like doing modular this time around, so I brought my Game Boy with Game Boy Camera (it has a small sequencer/synth feature) and my Zoom MS-70CDR effects pedal and made noise with those instead.

Boston Modular September 2022 Performance

Boston Modular December 2022 Performance

Boston Modular February 2023 Performance

My performance at Boston Modular in May 2023.  Playing Surge XT from my Arturia Keystep.  One track, just using Surge XT's internal effects.

Boston Modular May 2023 Performance

Just trying out my new Kawai ES8.  This is using the Upright Piano sound, with the voicing set to Bright 2, recorded to WAV using the USB recorder, then trimmed and converted to MP3 in Audacity.

(The original MP3 sounds slightly better -- sounds like SoundCloud might have re-encoded it a second time for streaming.)

Kawai Upright Bluesy 1

Final-ish remix of my older orchestral piece using ValhallaRoom for reverb.

Epic Strings re-mix with ValhallaRoom

A test of my new Make Noise 0-Coast, controlled using an Arturia Keystep, running through the tape echo and modulated reverb on my Zoom MS-70CDR effects pedal.  I used the latched arpeggiator on the 0-Coast, but patched the synth to generate random gates for more variety.

0-Coast Sketch #1

My first public performance at Boston Modular.  Used a Make Noise 0-Coast controlled by an Arturia Keystep and Korg SQ-1, run through a Zoom MS-70CDR effects pedal, and recorded by a Zoom H5.

Boston Modular June 2018 Performance

A synth-oriented improvisation using my 0-Coast/modular for bass and lead, and SR-16 for drums.  Disting is providing tape delay as usual.

Modular/0-Coast/SR-16 improv

My February 2020 modular synthesizer performance at The Hearing Room in Lowell, MA.

I used the Pittsburgh Waveforms for the drone and rhythmic notes, and enveloped white noise from the PGH Toolbox and SSF Ultra Random Analog for rhythm.  Plaits in string mode was used for the lead, being run through NE Terci Ruina for distortion.  Disting mk4 provided reverb for a couple of the sounds, while Disting mk3 ran tape delay being modulated by a square wave LFO for added texture.  Clouds provided end-of-chain reverb, along with granular effects (rhythmic freezing and grain playback).

Boston Modular February 2020 Performance at The Hearing Room

Haven't recorded too much piano lately, so I figured I'd record something.  Might try my hand at streaming at some point in the future.

More Piano Improv

More piano improv, this time layering the SK-5 grand piano sound with one of the organ sounds.

Piano and Organ Improv

Ambient-ish piano on my Kawai ES8.  Tape echo is from the Zoom MS-70CDR.

Ambient Piano 1

I performed at Drone Day 2019 at Artisan's Asylum last year.  This year, I cobbled together a streaming setup and did my first 40-minute-long set live on Facebook, complete with multiple cameras and lighting.  Okay, so they were webcams and Philips Hue, but it was quite fun!

Drone Day 2020 Performance

Piano And Organ Improv 2

So I finally got around to doing some field recording -- it's what I originally bought my Zoom H5 for.  Figured I'd record the rain this morning.

The recording is just using the Zoom's internal mics pointed out my window, with the windscreen on.

Rain and Birdsong (Field Recording)

Just some late night-ish contemplative piano.  Used the full-size (9-foot Kawai SK-EX) grand on my Kawai ES8, instead of the 6 foot (SK-5) one I usually use.  Did a bit of limiting (-3dB in Audacity).

Even More Piano Improv

Contemplative Piano 1

Found another piano recording I hadn't uploaded.  Recorded directly on my Kawai ES8.

Piano Improv 2019-01-05

Piano's back from repair -- figured I'd record more things.

Contemplative Piano 2

Did something a bit more experimental -- wrote a computer program to generate notes from the Fibonacci sequence (adding in a few rules to add accidentals to the otherwise C-major scale, and to add divisions and sections to the piece), and interpreted it on the piano.

I accidentally repeated some of the sequence a couple of times, and the recording level was a bit low, but otherwise, I think it came out well.

Fibonacci 1

Discordant Piano 1

Modified my earlier Fibonacci program to add chords, fed in the chords for the Folia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folia) and set the right scale, and did another performance based on the output.

Folia Fibonacci 1

Been watching too many YouTube videos of old synths and grooveboxes.  Decided to do something techno-ish.

J.P. Tuttle

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